Gofore

Making a positive impact

Our mission is to change the world for the better. We aim to radiate value for future mobility challenges using consulting, coding and design as tools to incite positive change. In 2017, we were chosen as the best workplace in Finland and the runner up to the best workplace in Europe. We pursue projects that have significant impact on both society and on the environment.

We help our customers bring new technologies from the drawing board into daily use. Our aim is to help organizations transform, stay current in the ever-changing environment and capitalize on new opportunities. We seek to build an increasingly functional and mobile future.

We are committed in helping our customers realizing digital opportunities. We have been accelerating versatile innovation projects within the transport sector in Finland. Whether it has been about renewing the traffic management ecosystem, enabling the switch to electric cars, transformation of global transport services or exploring the endless possibilities of Mobility as a Service. Our capabilities evolve and adapt continuously to match our customers’ needs – all around the world.

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences – Smart Mobility Innovation Hub

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Finland provides studies in the Helsinki capital region in the fields of Business, Culture, Health care and Social services, and Technology. We focus on innovation and applying existing research results in joint projects and close cooperation with relevant industries under five thematic innovation hubs, creating national and international ecosystems.

The Smart Mobility innovation hub provides expertise and collaboration to develop new technologies and service solutions to promote traffic, logistics and human needs. From 2016 onwards we have tested the electric automated shuttle buses on open roads in Finland and abroad.

Our staff is highly qualified experts. The innovation hub is linked to the Degree Programme in Automotive and mechanical Engineering, providing students project work possibilities. Our Workshop has created passenger vehicle prototypes such as the electric supercar Angelica and the biomaterial-based Biofore Concept Car. We develop and manufacture prototypes, demonstrators and concepts; perform tests and analysis services; consult in design, improvement and measurement projects; provide courses and knowledge.

We welcome partners, service providers, technology companies, investors and researchers to join us in the creation of smarter mobility to benefit users. Together with the users we design the future of smart mobility.

ITS Factory

City as a test area

ITS Factory is innovation, experimentation and development environment, where companies and individual developers can research, develop, test and productize Intelligent Transport Systems and Solutions. ITS-factory stakeholders actively develop different parts of autonomous transport, such as automated feeder transport services and their operation towards an integrated public transport system.

City of Tampere is active in developing and boosting sustainable services such as Mobility-as-a-Service, demand responsive transport, payment & ticketing, Parking-as-a-Service, eMobility, automated transport services, intelligent tram system and drones as part of integrated mobility. City of Tampere is also a forerunner in opening traffic data, both static and real-time.

ITS Factory has active Public-Private Partnership cooperation between members on all levels and dozens of R&D projects in national and international level. ITS Factory’s goal is to produce business-oriented solutions for ITS and it also wants to support standardization.

ITS Factory is an open research, development, testing and data sharing network for the members.

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Vapaus.io – Carbon negative co-mobility

Vapaus.io provides shared mobility or co-mobility as we call it for businesses and real estate owners. We provide the solution on how to mobility can be both, more responsible and more fun. Currently, we serve businesses from start ups to multi billion euro corporations.

The turn key service consists of a dedicated fleet of ecological vehicles such as electric bicycles or electric cars, full service plan, insurances, software platform and full offset of the emissions. We are the first carbon negative mobility business in the world.

According to our clients, the key benefits of the service include emission reduction, cost savings with easier administration and improved employee experience.

CGI

Connecting the dots between data, technology and people

CGI is a global IT and business consulting company. We work together with our clients to develop services and IP with first-class customer and user experience.

Our transportation services for cities, authorities and private companies keep both people and goods moving in Finland. By combining data, technology and people, we create new business and innovation on land, at sea and in the air through our extensive ecosystem of clients and partners.

Pursuing to meet the emissions targets is everyone’s responsibility. We believe technology is key in achieving a greener future and with our services we are helping our clients act more responsible. Our logistics solution, IT4Cargo, cuts emissions from Finnish road logistics with optimization and enables up to 18 % lower carbon footprint in fuel emissions. Artificial Intelligence is harnessed for the environment, as our analytics solution for MacGregor warns of containers at risk of falling from the ship into the sea, enabling course changes before any damage occurs.

Väylävirasto

Infrastructure provides a platform for growth

Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency concentrates on planning, developing, and maintaining state owned road, rail, and maritime transport infrastructure and the coordination of transport and land-use. In addition, it is also responsible for arranging traffic control and winter navigation. FTIA will operate in the planning of transport systems as the primary partner of regional councils, municipalities, urban regions, and other players.

Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency deals with the service level of transport, thus promoting well-being in Finnish society and Finnish business competitiveness. FTIA’s task is to respond efficiently and responsibly to customer needs arising from changes in transportation and to produce a growth platform for society in the form of a functional and safe infrastructure. In addition, we do our part to promote development and responsible construction in the infrastructure field.

City of Tampere

Sustainable and intelligent transport system utilizing digitalization and intelligent transport solutions

City of Tampere has long history and is actively developing ITS systems and services. Big infrastructure projects like new city tram and Central Deck and Arena is urban scale development on top of existing railway tracks in the heart of the city offer a great platform to develop and implement new innovations. Goal is to add value to citizens everyday life, create new business opportunities to companies and to build sustainable city together with ITS Factory and Smart Tampere ecosystems. ITS Factory is an active business ecosystem that has operated in the region for a long time and has supported collaboration between different parties and the creation of new solutions. Smart Tampere is the strategic development programme of the City of Tampere for 2017–2021. These ecosystems consist of companies, universities, r&d organizations and public entities. Our goal is to make Tampere one of leading smart mobility cities and testing grounds in Europe.

Oulun Energia – Your partner in smoother, safer and more intelligent traffic solutions

Oulun Energia’s core operations cover the entire value chain of the energy industry, but as a valuable add to it, we also provide services for road traffic and intelligent transport systems.

Street and traffic light contracting is maybe the most well-known part of our services in this sector, but in recent years we have grown to one of the market leaders in Finland in construction and maintenance of road telematics.

We aim to make the everyday traffic to all road users in Finland more functional, smoother and safer. Variable warning and message signs, traffic counters and cameras are some examples of our tools in this work. We are also one of the main partners in consulting and developing the HALI system, a national traffic light pre-emption system for emergency vehicles.

 

Etteplan

DIGITALIZATION WITH A DIFFERENCE!

Etteplan can design and implement digitalization solutions from sensors to data analytics, and from service design to integration of different critical systems and IoT devices. We master all relevant cloud technologies.

We have implemented for example car sharing services, applications for mobile refueling, solutions for charging electric vehicles and many other digital and mobile services for professional drivers and consumers. We create, integrate and maintain for example logistics, payment solutions, ERP, resourcing and route planning and optimization solutions.

We have a wide range of digitalization professionals from user experience designers to software architects and software developers. With Etteplan’s embedded software developers and test engineers we can design and implement anything to digitalize your business. Etteplan also offers digitalization services for technical information.

Our approach is always user driven, whether it is an app that is destined for the end user’s hands or as a tool for a professional user. Our solutions make use of the latest proven technology.

The results of Etteplan’s innovative engineering can be seen in numerous industrial solutions and everyday products. The company currently has over 3,400 professionals in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Denmark, USA and China.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Helping customers in the transition to sustainable, service-oriented and automated mobility

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a visionary research, development and innovation partner. VTT drives sustainable growth and tackles the biggest global challenges of our time. VTT goes beyond the obvious to help the society and companies to grow through technological innovations. We have over 75 years of experience of top-level research and science-based results.

VTT’s mobility and transport research foster the value driven, adaptive and responsible future mobility of people and goods. VTT provides applied research to more than 200 companies internationally, from standardized validation and development tasks to considerable ecosystem schemes. ​In European research ranking VTT is ranked 4th in Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation programme.

VTT develops solutions for its customers using the multidisciplinary approach, and integrating different sectors: smart services, cities, infrastructure, autonomous and connected systems, transport and mobility as well as data​. VTT has unique equipment and facilities for research on machines and vehicles, enabling the creation of entirely new innovations and the further development of existing machinery, vehicles and transport systems. These research facilities cover an extremely broad range of experimental research on everything from components to systems level simulation. Engine and vehicle laboratory research is suitable for passenger cars as well as heavy-duty vehicle up to 60 metric tons to develop energy efficiency, emissions, reduction, use of 2nd generation biofuels, electric powertrains, energy storages, vehicle fleet and route simulation.